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iPad As Restaurant Menu Mainstay
More and more restaurants in America that use iPad as a substitute for his menu. Not just be a sweetener, but Apple’s gadgets are believed to increase the number of orders.
Cut steakhouse restaurant in Chicago, for example. iPad which functioned as a restaurant menu proved to be effective mengatrol wine sales (wine) that it provides at dinner.
David Flom, Chicago Cut restaurant manager, acknowledged that the iPad is supplied to the list of restaurant menus is a big investment. But it all started to pay off with the results obtained.
“We saw an increase of 20% for each wine that was ordered each of our customers. iPad can not be expected to bring increased 100%, but we believe the results are quite significant, “he said as quoted from the AP on Tuesday (01/04/2011).
Steakhouse restaurant is invested 40 iPad at a cost of U.S. $ 700 (approximately USD 7 million) for each unit. IPAD serves dinner menu and 750 wines are available through an exciting interactive applications.
Cut Chicago is not alone. Many other restaurants are also used as a device replacement iPad traditional menu laminating paper. For example, Au Bon Pain in Boston and 4Food in New York.
They acknowledge, with IPAD connected online to the Internet not only facilitate the ordering, but also make payment by credit card so much simpler.
Patrick Eldon, chief executive orderTALK Inc.. who built the online ordering system for restaurants, assess IPAD can also offer value to build customer relationships. Through the device, the restaurant can do a digital survey, gather email addresses of customers, and offers a dinner program
“We know more about our customers in a way that we can not find out through our servants. From there we can get the most valuable customer data, such as how often they eat, and order what they like, “said Eldon.
Not only in restaurants in general, IPAD also serve meals at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York by OTG Management. Noted there are over 200 iPad is installed, so hungry visitors can easily order a salad or sandwich while waiting for flights.
“After the meal was presented, the payment can be cash or through the iPad. Currently we provide hundreds of new iPad, and we hope the number can be thousands in the future, “said chief executive officer of OTG, Rick Blatstein.
iPad is also a mainstay restaurant menu on ships. For example, the Celebrity Cruises ship that provides 75 iPad on every voyage.
Crazy! Apple Value Equals Price Six Facebook
The value of company Apple is now more than USD300 billion in capital markets. This achievement can only be achieved by a few companies in the world.
Its value is now equal to six times that of Facebook. Both also enthused investors
On Monday (3 / 1), the value of Apple has increased more than seven points to 329.75, making the value of the company in the capital markets to USD302, 47 billion. Similarly, as reported by Mashable.
Apple has reported record earnings this year, thanks to the success of the iPhone and iPad 4. Apple has sold 3.89 million Macs, 14.1 million iPhone units, 9.05 million iPods and 4.19 million units iPad in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Eight months ago, Apple is still worth USD223 billion. The values are made as technology companies with the highest score in the top rival, Microsoft. In October, the value of the company again rose to USD274 billion.
Apple shares rise some 2% mengatrol value of the company Steve Jobs. While Facebook will reportedly injected huge funds from investors Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies (DST).
According to media reports the New York Times, citing relevant sources, Goldman Sachs will invest some EUR 450 million. While DST is USD 50 million bringing total investment to up to $ 500 million.
In comparison, Apple is now worth six times that of Facebook, then the value is increased again approximately USD50 billion in just over six months.
Apple now ranks as the second most highly valued company in the world after Exxon Mobil Corporation which is worth approximately USD376 billion
iPhone as an Entry Level Doing Business with Apple
Integrating technology with business case is tricky. Frankly, in Indonesia there is not a company that is able to bind to the tips of his own invention of technology commercialization is perfect.
Program Information Technology (IT) made in Indonesia are still children at satisfactory levels of individual users, not corporate. It helps us a little peek at the success of Apple, a company that could be considered a great success integrating technology and business.
Apple is the only company in the world to master the four key industries, namely music, movies, computers and telecommunications. Apple itself shows the most popular Apple is a company with industry averages are stable. The company is able to record a constant increase, from 16 dollars a share when Steve Jobs back to Apple in 1996, rising to 80 dollars. They have had three times the stock split to the present number of 135.74 dollars.
Apple’s key to success is consistency in the aspects of innovation and design. Including one company that emphasizes aspects of design and innovation in product launches, make the product different from Apple’s stand-alone product from a competitor company. Let’s peel one after the success of Apple’s business model.
iPhone as an Entry Level Doing business with Apple
Why the iPhone is the sweetspot to start doing business with Apple? iPhone is a smartphone most revolutionary in history. Both technologically and in marketing. iPhone sold more than 770,000 units in the first week of launch, 270,000 units in the first 10 hours of launch, and 550,000 units in 3 days of launch, making the iPhone is the hottest mobile phone in the market today. Compare this with the iPod generation one (in 2002) which sold only 100,000 units within two years of launch. Now that iPods dominate the MP3 business world with a value of 40 billion dollars.
IPhone business model
iPhone menpersyaratkan partnerships with mobile operators. AT & T (Cingular) is the sole partner for Apple’s current iPhone service in America. The reason why Apple is so because it requires Apple’s first venture into the handset, and he wanted the bulk buying of the operator and part of the additional service features provided on the iPhone / Operator.
Sources Dimensional Measurement In Balaced Scorecard
Sources Dimensional Measurement In Balaced Scorecard
The main source in measuring four dimensions / perspectives Balanced Scorecard, is the availability of data and statistical calculations, to the colleges would have to have and develop information technology (IT).
Utilization and the presence and mastery of IT in the method of Balanced Scorecard becomes a mainstay of the absolute existence, given the development of IT not merely as a supporting function to facilitate and improve the quality of the process, but further than that mastery and eksisitensi IT in higher education is a factor increased institutional capacity to develop further. Given the essentially the use of IT in organizations and higher education institutions can be instrumental as a provider of data, information providers, providers of knowledge and policy providers.
Not to be redundant would eventually anyone (college) who are able to master and utilize its IT with the optimum can help in improving its capabilities.
Application of Balanced Scorecard in Higher Education
Application of Balanced Scorecard in Higher Education
As we all know that universities are generally established either by government or private sector, not merely for profit, but more to the mission and motivation to be able to serve the needs of the community in an effort to meet the needs of higher education in an effort to share the nation’s intellectual life. Although it may be his way many of them educational institutions run by both government and private sector deficit (financial) continuously, but by all means, the wheels of education must still be spinning. For that reason felt the need for an instrument that can measure and analyze every aspect / dimension of the driving components, primarily relating to the financial dimension and components in their applications we must distinguish between an educational institution with an organization that is more full profit-oriented , but in principle have in common.
On his way, today is the Balanced Scorecard further application which was designed solely for the purposes of performance measurement alone, now can also be used as a management system, especially relating to strategic management. There are four main things that can be grouped in the application management system that is related to 1) clarify and translate vision and strategy, 2) communicating the strategic goals and objectives, 3) plan, set targets, 4) launch feedback and improvement strategies.
Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Framework